sekon

From Dutch seconde (“second”), from French seconde, from Latin secunda.

• IPA^(key): [səˈkɔn]
• Hyphenation: sê‧kon

sêkon (first-person possessive sekonku, second-person possessive sekonmu, third-person possessive sekonnya)

1. (sciences) second, one-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.

The word sekon is rarely used outside of academia, compared to the more general term detik which can also be used in academia.

• detik
• saat (Standard Malay)

• “sekon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.